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Thanks for the question. The philosophy behind PubMed Labs is to deliver functionality in small increments in order to get feedback from the community.

We’re thinking about the best way to push this type of information out, and it is great to know that such a feature would be of interest to you. Which channel would suit you best? (e.g., Twitter, RSS, email alert, others?)

I think email is great. It’s automatic (forces me to keep up to date) and portable (I can review tables of contents anywhere. If a meeting starts 5 minutes late, I can review several journals quickly. If I like an article I can flag the email for later or if there’s nothing of interest I delete and move on.

You should see the list of any journals you have followed, and be able to scroll down and see the list of Popular Journals below it. If that’s not, what you are seeing, please contact us via our support site.

Hi, great resource! I was wondering if a future feature to consider would be the ability to group or tag followed journals, or have multiple pages of followed journals? For example, I’m an orthoptist, so I want to keep up with journals like Investigative Ophthalmology and Vision Science, but my new research area is completely different, so I also want to be able follow journals like European Journal of Cancer Care, or Diabetes journal. It’d be really nice to have a page for all my eye journals and then a separate page for all my cancer stuff or my diabetes stuff. It’d actually, I think, be the most useful to be able to tag your journals, and then view by tag.

Thanks for your feedback. We’re thinking about how to combine something like the MyNCBI “collections”, tags, and other ways to group saved links and content. If we had a consistent way of doing that it would seem useful to get alerts for any new resources – from Journal articles to Proteins. What do you think?

So, just to make sure I understand, the only way to see the list of the journals you follow is to go back to the PubMedJournals page? The list of followed journals does not appear anywhere else, like in MyNCBI? Just checking to make sure I didn’t miss something.

As mentioned in a prior reply, we’re thinking about how to combine something like the MyNCBI “collections”, tags, and other ways to group saved links and content. What do you think would be the most useful way to do that?

I am testing this out in hopes of showing this tool to some new users so they can follow their favorite journals and view the latest table of contents. I am noticing that the publication dates are different than what is listed in the original link:
for example the latest issue of JAMIA is: volume 24 , issue 2: https://academic.oup.com/jamia/issue/24/2 When I look at most recently listed articles I see a date like this: 2016 Dec 31 for this article most recently published: Am Med Inform Assoc (2017) 24 (2): 244-245. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocw162 Published: 13 February 2017
what does the 2016 Dec 31 listed here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/articles/28040683/ signify ?

I think this feature is a good idea and has the potential to become really great. I have a few suggestions that could allow people to get more out it.

As others have suggested, a notification system for email or RSS, etc. and some sort of collection system would be very beneficial. I also think a separate tab that lists the trending articles for both your chosen feed or universally would be very interesting.

Furthermore I think there should be integration with your existing pubmed features such as exporting citations, sharing on social media and the comments section. Having all these features in the feed allow people to engage with the article without having to navigate away. The comments sections especially has potential to facilitate some great discussions on all of these emerging research articles.

Other small things are merely style choices, such as wanting the feed section to be larger and font sizes of journals tweaked.

Well said. Good Information. I think email is extraordinary. It’s programmed (drives me to stay up with the latest) and versatile (I can audit tables of substance anyplace. On the off chance that a meeting begins 5 minutes late, I can audit a few diaries rapidly. On the off chance that I like an article I can hail the email for later or if there’s nothing of intrigue I erase and proceed onward